The San Diego Amateur Winemaking Society (SDAWS) meeting was Saturday, August 03, 2024. in Oceanside, CA, The Chang family were our gracious hosts and shared their new home with 300 established grapevines with us. We had about 25 members in attendance, which was a sizable number considering it is summer, and folks are likely on vacation.

We had a brief meeting to ensure that everyone was receiving emails from American Wine Society and knew about the upcoming conference in November as well as the related wine competition, and 2025 Seine River cruise.

We experienced a wonderful presentation about fermentation and general winemaking best practices from award-winning winemaker Micole Moore of Ramona Ranch Winery. Micole also let us taste one of his brand-new wines, not even released in the market yet.

We did a vineyard tour, which sits high on a hill overlooking the backside of Oceanside with views toward the ocean.

The members had a fun time visiting, enjoyed snacks, pizza, and each other’s wines.

We ended with a wine raffle exchange, where members got an opportunity to share their own wine as well as take home a bottle of someone else’s wine.